Jamshedpur, Nov. 8: Asanboni and its adjoining villages will remain choc-a-bloc tomorrow with the villagers deciding to organise a massive rally and gherao the deputy commissioner?s office.

The move has been triggered in protest of a possible land acquisition at the proposed site of Jindal Steel and Power Limited in the area for its new steel and power plant project. The rally will be organised under the banner of Bhumi Raksha Samiti and will be supported by Adivasi Adhikar Morcha.

Demka Soy, in-charge of the morcha, today said villagers hailing from Asanboni and as many as 15 other adjoining villages, including Khayerbani, Dhanchatani, Tilamuda, Ghatiduba, Kudapal, Chatro, Hasadungri, Khakripara and Lohabasa, had earlier, at a meeting on November 6, constituted the Bhumi Suraksha Samiti to protest against the acquisition of land by Jindal Steel and Power for its new steel plant.

Moreover, at the meeting, the gram pradhans unanimously decided not to allow any ?outsider? to set up a steel plant in the district. Besides, they refused to accept any compensation and rehabilitation package from the company.

?We strongly oppose the state government?s move of signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Jindals Steel and Power Limited. We will intensify our agitation if the company does not back out from the proposed project,? said Sangram Hembram, a resident of Khayerbani village.

Notably, the circle officer of Jamshedpur block, vide a circular issued on October 29, informed the villagers that two plots will be given to Jindal Steel and Power under lease for its proposed steel plant project.

The circular also invited objections, if any, from the villagers. November 12 was set as the deadline for filing in the objections.

But the villagers claimed that those plots were being used for agricultural and other purposes for over three decades. Moreover, several landless people were rehabilitated on that plot of land a few years ago, they added.

?How can they now be displaced from that land for the industrial project,? asked Phudan Murmu, chief patron of Adivasi Adhikar Morcha.

Murmu added that they will oppose every attempt by the government to displace them from their ancestral land. He also threatened to go all the way and disrupt the foundation stone laying ceremony likely on November 14.